After months of mounting dissatisfaction with the way Sun Microsystems was evolving the MySQL database, the founders of the popular open source vendor have decided to move on.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/06/2009
Microsoft has followed up on the release of its Windows 7 Beta by rolling out another build of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit.
Infragistics has launched Quince, a new (and free) "interactive [User Experience] UX patterns catalog and community resource to build user interfaces."
A debate erupted over the effectiveness of the user account control feature in Microsoft's beta release of Windows 7.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/05/2009
DynaTrace Software this week upgraded its platform to allow developers to monitor, test and troubleshoot globally distributed SOA-based applications.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/05/2009
Microsoft plans to rollout four security bulletins for this month's patch cycle on Tuesday, with two "critical" items and two "important" patches on the slate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/05/2009
Microsoft has begun aggressively reaching out to the channel to prepare for the release of Windows 7.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/04/2009
Despite gloomy economic projections, IT professionals may fare better than people working in other job sectors this year, according to Computer Economics report.
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/04/2009
The source code for Microsoft's Web Sandbox is now available under an open license.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/03/2009
Microsoft described its product lineup plans for its forthcoming Windows 7 operating system launch, expected in early 2010 or possibly earlier.
Microsoft has released Semblio SDK version 1, a new tool for education developers that's designed to aid in the creation of interactive learning materials.
Xenocode, the Seattle-based maker of virtualization tools, today released the latest version of its Virtual Application Studio, a developer-focused authoring environment for virtualizing existing Windows-based applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/02/2009
An international team of computer scientists has demonstrated in the lab that it is possible for overlapping Wi-Fi networks in densely populated areas to support the rapid spread of malicious code that could infect an entire city in a matter of weeks.
- By William Jackson
- 02/02/2009
Windows XP powers "71 percent of PCs within North American and European enterprises," according to a report published last week by Forrester Research.
Defense Department officials have launched a new Web site where developers can work on open source software projects specifically for DOD.
Microsoft’s Powerset acquisition brings the first open source code into a Microsoft product.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/01/2009
Research shows Software as a Service development is on the rise, especially in North America and the Asia-Pacific region.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/01/2009
Redmond releases a CTP of Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/01/2009
The Ruby on Rails project joins with Merb framework to develop Rails 3.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/01/2009
The rise of netbooks challenges Microsoft and other companies whose high-end operating systems may not run on the portable machines.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/01/2009